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The Endless Cleverness of the Human Mind

So Spake Mo...
It is so closely our neighbor and the heritage of many a dear friend and co-worker and yet for all the grandeur of its landscape and culture, we fear it. The elegant architecture of old Europe, the ancient temples of early civilization lay shrouded from our view, withheld from inspiring our curious minds by a wall of violence and corruption. [Read more...]


















No Idea

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They had no idea what they were getting into.

Would an astronaut's eyes work up in space or would the lack of gravity casue them to change shape, so that they could not see?

Would gravity affect his ability to breathe, even to swallow the food he needed to survive?

Sould they keep a rocket together long enough to find out? They were replacing a warhead with a human payload on a freaking missile!

What would the surface of the moon be like?
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The Daredevil and the Fisherman

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Once there was a man who - despite being on record as having broken nearly every bone in his entire body over the course of his illustrious career - managed to secure all the necessary permits from the city of Twin Falls, Idaho to stage a media extravaganza! [Read more...]










The Giant Rock Oyster Totem Tells a Tale...or Two

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Stories bend over time. They stretch and twist, they slide and expand to fit their new tellers, the new needs they are brought out to serve. [Read More...]



















Light a Rocket

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There is a certain fearless foolishness inherent in the act of pioneering, the faith that you are somehow cleverer, luckier, more divinely guided than the ones who came before you. [Read more...]




















Twin Falls Trolley

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Below roared the thunderous waters of the Shoshone Falls like a scal model of the great Niagra, filling the space between sheer canyon walls with billows of fine mist. [Read more...]
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